BAM Group to construct ICU building

BAM Holdings recently unveiled plans to donate funds for the building of a children's Intensive Care Unit at the Homagama General Hospital. The initiative will see the setting up of neo natal ventilation and other critical care facilities that will indeed help the hospital uplift the services it offers to children.

The project which is part of the company's Children's Day celebrations will be accompanied by another project that will see the setting up of a fully equipped modern day care Centre for the children of the group's workers from the 3 factories in Ranna in Tangalle. Both projects are to be completed by the 1st of January 2008.

Speaking about the pledge for the Intensive Care Unit the Chairman of the group B A Mahipala said, "Our group operates with a set of values that have been upheld since our inception.

We decided that we must spend more effort on children for another very relevant reason. That is children's wear is our core business. Through our company Miami Exports we are one of the main supplier partners of prestigious world-renowned labels in this area," added Mahipala.

The BAM group of companies consists of seven vertically integrated companies in the apparel sector, providing total solutions to the quality conscious global buyer and value added solutions to other local manufacturers and exporters.

The group has been around for 27 years and supply renowned global label NEXT of the UK as a preferred partner in Sri Lanka, in addition to being a supplier for brands such as Marks and Spencer, Reebok as well as many others, with mainly children clothes.

All the companies of the BAM group invited the children of their staff members and workers at all locations on October 1st morning to a special felicitation ceremony symbolic of the occasion, where the children were shown the place where their parents work for their future and were given special gifts and a treat.

Many smiles were created there as well Hemantha Munasinghe, the Vice Chairman of the apparel holdings went on to add that "we really want to see, not only the children of our staff, but also all the children out there feel that they are cared for and that we are willing to go that extra mile to make the world a better place for them."